Determining fixed crane areas in rail-rail transshipment yards

作者：Boysen Nils^*; Fliedner Matte; Kellner Michael

来源：Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review , 2010, 46(6): 1005-1016.

DOI：10.1016/j.tre.2010.05.004

• Railway systems
• Transshipment yards
• Container handling
• Crane scheduling

To enable rapid container transshipment between freight trains in modern rail-rail transshipment yards efficient computerized scheduling procedures are indispensable. This paper proposes a dynamic programming approach, which determines yard areas for gantry cranes, so that the workload is evenly spread among cranes and, thus, train processing is accelerated. In a straightforward simulation of transshipment yard operations, the effect of optimal crane areas vs. equally sized areas is studied, the latter being a common real-world policy. The results indicate a remarkable speed-up of train processing if optimal crane areas are applied.

• 出版日期2010-11